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  1. sahara

    SFI Options and Grassweeds

    What are people's thoughts on how they will manage Blackgrass and or Rye Grass in options like Wild Bird Food or Legume fallows? I've been reading through the SFI handbook and have found some options that would be a good fit for us, but I'm nervous of planting something that becomes swamped by...
  2. Kernowkid

    Intensive cell grazing cattle

    As the title suggest considering going down this route with the cattle. Mega simple system, no breeding stock, one stock class. 12 month old bought in 400kgish animals, groups of 40 grazed from March to November on good free draining ground. Fresh cell every day, grazing herbal lays, no corn...
  3. Laggard

    Small willow herb

    Think this is willow herb? Best herbicide to kill it pre spring barley drilling please?
  4. Surgery

    5-6 weeks till cuckoo song

    Not wanting to depress folk but another one or two big rains and looking around a lot of spring stuff won’t be going in , Europe in pjaves can’t be much different , fert and chemicals not gone on on a lot of winter crops and gone backwards in places , what’s folks farms looking like and what’s...
  5. T

    wild oats or ryegrass in winter barley?

    Greetings All, Hoping to find sites for a herbicide trial, the difficulty is finding somewhere that hasn't sprayed already. Any help with this would be much appreciated! Alex
  6. A

    Hybrid rye

    Anyone growing rye/hybrid rye for a digester? Pro's and con's? Yeilds?
  7. B

    Outwintering in the floods

    How's everyone getting on keeping sheep and cattle outside. Pretty biblical round here. Thinking will have to house the multiples for a month to give us half a chance of getting through to spring.
  8. Panicnow

    Would a "Growing strike" work?

    With the DEFRA payments for not growing crops being a better risk-reward than growing crops. Should we seek to get EVERY ARABLE FARMER to declare they are going 100% into "Herbal Lays" etc. and 0% into combinable crops. (Maybe 0% feed crops, as I know many farmers are a bit workaholic) We could...
  9. Corteva Technical

    New data shows severity of brome concern for wheat growers

    New data shows severity of brome concern for wheat growers Hundreds of farmers, contractors and agronomists have indicated that brome is a growing threat in the battle against grassweeds in UK arable fields. New data from a Corteva Agriscience survey shows that 80% of respondents have...
  10. CPM RSS

    Brome survey results

    Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine Hundreds of farmers, contractors and agronomists have indicated that brome is a growing threat in the battle against grassweeds in UK arable fields. New survey data suggests that 80% of respondents have populations on their farms with the vast...
  11. cowboysupper

    Topdressing winter crop with digestate

    We have been ploughing digestate down prior to sowing winter crops for years and have occassionally topdressed spring crop in May with digestate as well, however we have very little experience of applying it on winter crop in early spring. We normally retain most of our digestate for grassland...
  12. F

    SAM2 Mulitspecies cover, who is doing it and what's your plan?

    I had previously been overlooking SAM2 mutlispecies cover. Is it really as simple as we drill autumn cereal crop as usual, give it a light sprinkle of some other species and claim it as Sam2? Seems to have the potentially to be the most reward for least cost/effort option of all SFI...
  13. S

    C4 Escape to the wild

    Anybody watch Kevin Mc Cloud last night? he was in the Belize jungle with an English couple who had moved out and bought land. He thought it was the best thing ever, didn't seem to have a problem with the fact they had cut down 26 acres of rain forest. Then they are always giving out about...
  14. Bigsingle

    Welsh Sustainable Farming Scheme AND Protests

    This is the number someone has come up with for the Welsh government for losses down to the new agriculture policy. Great news. Not.
  15. IOW91

    Which Recreational Tillage Machine? (Mat or Tine harrow)

    Evening all, I know it's been asked on here alot so please forgive me. I am going to be getting some sort of recreational Tillage device for spring grass maintenance. I will be using it for removing old thatch and spreading the lumps of FYM/ sheep dung around. Removing poaching from cattle...
  16. bigrigg150

    Tractor buying madness

    So the price of tractors is silly........but we all know that and probs getting sick of hearing it.........but 180-200hp tractor.....out of all of the different makes and models, which one will hold its value the best? I dont mean which one will be worth the most after 3/4 years and 6000 hours...
  17. supercow

    Silage replacer

    Losing 100 acres of silage ground to our landlord, flipping our cow grazing acres and a bit more grazing ground into silage ground, keeping them in 365 tho, what silage replacers could I use? I’m thinking fodder beet, crush it on farm and buy cleaned, 7kgs a day would save roughly 300 ton of...
  18. The Guardian RSS

    Beer, bread and beyond: the ‘mind-blowing’ potential of Australia’s mountain rye and other perennial grains

    Beer, bread and beyond: the ‘mind-blowing’ potential of Australia’s mountain rye and other perennial grains Written by Eliza Spencer from the Guardian Initially grown as food for livestock, many more possible uses for the hardy crops are now being unearthed Sign up for the Rural Network...
  19. N

    Ryegrass yields

    I’m dreaming of drier times today and I’ve been offered by a neighbour his Italian/ perennial rye grass mix and I’m just wondering how many bales would you expect off it from 3 cuts? They are grass seeds planted in august. I’m just needing a rough guess so I know how much of my own stuff to...
  20. J

    Have a giggle

    Just spotted on a local facebook group. Selfish me, no animals on my land that could all have horses on as we speak! Did make me laugh, and yes she's serious
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